Juan was none of these, but slight and slim,

Blushing and beardless; and, yet, ne'ertheless,

There was a something in his turn of limb,

And still more in his eye, which seemed to express,

That, though he looked one of the Seraphim,

There lurked a man beneath the Spirit's dress.

Besides, the Empress sometimes liked a boy,

And had just buried the fair-faced Lanskoi.[JI] [509]